Summary: Business conditions, confidence improve; solid expansion is underway; Victorian conditions “to improve” as lockdown impact fades; capacity usage rate increases again; difference between employment and profitability sub-indices sends “mixed signals”. NAB’s business survey indicated Australian business conditions were robust in the first half of 2018, with a cyclical-peak reached in April of that year. Readings from NAB’s indices then began to slip, declining to below-average levels by the...